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  The Devil's Details: A History of Footnotes (Paperback) By (author) Chuck Zerby

  

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  Short Description for The Devil's DetailsFootnotes have not had it easy. Their dominance of eighteenth- and nineteenth- century literature and scholarship was both hard-won -- following many years of struggle -- and doomed, as it led to belittlement in the twentieth century. In The Devil's Details, Chuck Zerby playfully explores footnotes' long and illustrious history and makes a clarion call to save them from the new world of the Intern...
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  • Publisher: SIMON & SCHUSTER
  • Published: 17 March 2003
  • Format: Paperback 162 pages
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  • Categories: Writing & Editing Guides | Literary Studies: General | Encyclopaedias & Reference Works | Humour
  • ISBN 13: 9780743241755 ISBN 10: 0743241754
  • Sales rank: 386,472

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• Footnotes have not had it easy. Their dominance of eighteenth- and nineteenth- century literature and scholarship was both hard-won -- following many years of struggle -- and doomed, as it led to belittlement in the twentieth century. In The Devil's Details, Chuck Zerby playfully explores footnotes' long and illustrious history and makes a clarion call to save them from the new world of the Internet and hypertext.In a story that boasts a marvelous plot and a rogues' gallery of players, Zerby examines traditional footnotes and their less-buttoned-down incarnations, as when used by pornographers. Yes, The Devil's Details is full of surprises: Zerby hunts down the first bona fide fully functioning footnote; unearths a multivolume history of Northumberland County, England, that uses one volume for a single footnote; and uncovers a murder plot. He even explains why footnotes are like blind dates.Carefully researched and highly opinionated, The Devil's Details affirms that delight in reading can come from unexpected places.